Yest my posts are very infrequent, sparse, you name it, but at least here’ a short one, another version of this painting of pop singer Ariana Grande, must admit I don’t know her music…but I do start knowing her back pretty well

This can apply to my blogging rythme, but in this case it is more about 12 hours without electricity, not a big drama, except when home is your work’s place…

So the day start, not much work to do but a good day to get back on those things you left behind….Début de la journée, pas trop de travail mais belle occasion de se mettre dans ses tâches qu’on néglige…

Panne électrique…le site d’Hydro Québec m’informe que cela devrait revenir vers 09:15…..Power outage, Hydro Québec site show that power should be back around 09:15…

Le bureau est bien tranquille mais belle lumière (en fait la photo est prise en fin PM…bon je viens de vendre la mèche, la panne a été pas mal plus longue bof..) The office is really quiet and kind of nice with that late afternoon light..(oops I just gave a hint, power came back later than 09:15…)

16:00 Nap is over, then I noticed the strange beauty of candle light and the blue light coming from a cloudy and snowy day, so yes all the pics were made at that time….but I am getting more and more eager to get back the power, and it is getting a bit cold…

Still a bit ‘hazy’ or sleepy, I notice this black shape, am I in a 2001 Space Odyssey remake…like Guetteur de Lune (don’t know is name in the english version) watching this strange monolith ? of course it is not…just my external drive sitting by the window, the sun is setting down and the light is quite nice.

Long day waiting, just realizing that were used to much comfort, taken it fro granted and feel a bit lost when it is not there, no music, tv, light, computers, everything come to a stall…give me some thing to think about, not sure what exactly yet, but something…:)

It is said that we from Québec, are coming from the distant Gallic people, the most popular according to our main historical source, at least for many of us, being Asterix, which albums I have read over and over, not sure if it was because I wasn’t so much of a quick learner or rather I was always finding something new, hidden into the drawings and quotes….And one thing we learned from these documents is that those brave Gallic people feared only one thing…that the sky would fall on them, specifically on their heads…in Montreal we could add a second one…that the Montreal Canadiens wont make the NHL playoffs for the next 5 years…

This fearsome fact is well illustrated here by an example of some shelter structure erected in Villeray in Montreal, intersection Villeray street and de Lajeunesse, so if it is happening a safe harbor would be provided here..

A few bold people are saying that in fact it is an example of a new movement trying to improve the City’s quality of life…hum maybe it is a more realistic view, but less funny I think…so thanks to Google and Street view, two pics before and after…

An old black and white photo, taken when most of pics were coming from film, and for this one, I did develop the film myself, sometimes I was printing as well, today Photoshop is easier but I do miss the old improvised darkroom….My camera then was a Pentax K-1000, a very basic one, except for the photometer, all was mechanical…so the shooting had to be quick and often with some guessing about light, exposure and even focus, like this one for instance that is a bit off focus..

IL m’arrive aussi parfois de reprendre ces clichés en tableau, comme celui ci, fait quelque par entre 2000 et 2004, j’ai l’information mais je dois la retrouver…Also a few times I did try making a painting from these pics, this one was made between 2000 and 2004, I do have the exact information…somewhere in the apartment…:)

Huile, 24×30, entre 200 et 2004

J’aime travailler comme cela, à partir d’esquisse en noir et blanc, la couleur je l’imagine…I like working from a black and white sketch or photograph, the colors are then coming from my imagination or feelings.

Every time that the bus is passing on the old Champlain bridge by the piles of the new bridge rising up from the River, I am always taken back to the time of the Expo 67, those shapes remind me of the double YY, a set of them that were making a circle to represent I suppose the unity between the Earth’s nations…..the new bridge has a more down to earth goal, just replacing an aging link between the South Shore and the Montreal Island. The Expo, held in 1967, was named Man and his World, today I guess it would have to be named differently…Man, Woman, LBGT, bipolar, XY or maybe Humanity and his World, and probably some nominations I did forgot or did not heard of, so a few pics of these pillars of the the new bridge and one of the Expo 67 logo…may be I am just seeing things that are not quite there…:)

Ah the Expo, what a nice ‘souvenir’, I was 11 years old, my parents let met go there on my own most of the Summer, one of the best summer I can remember, but no photos, then kids did not have cell phones and the possibility to takes pictures and selfies of everything…they still have to be invented, maybe this would make a few nice posts, but I would have to rely on my memories, then I wasn’t drawing either…:)

I am not sure if I am retired yet, lost my job I was close to 60, for a bit more than 2 years now, I am freelancing as a technical drafter, things are going pretty good, but can’t say when I will be retired completely…it goes from very far from at almost there…:) All that to say that we often have retirement project, one of mine is getting through my huge collection of slides, that I did scanned, unfortunately they are dusty…so most of them if not all need some photoshop work, some not much other extensively. And while doing this why not trying to improve the quality, like for this one for example…I don’t think it is worthed to do it for all of them, I will have to select the ones…so will see

Maybe I overdid it a little, maybe not….maybe I should make a painting out of it, another project I have…after all I am also a painter, and my friends and fans, craving for more landscapes would be very glad….it seems I am painting too many women wearing boots…:D

Difficult to find the time to write about my pics, to put up a story, so maybe just post some and maybe layer I will write something about them or not…

Well can’t resist write a little something..these are old pics 1983-1984, sorry for the dust specs have to work them in psd…it is up north, Eureka weather station, around or flying to…,more to come eventually, more than these 4 of the hundreds slides I have from the North, Winnipeg and Europa, and thousands if I am taking into account the ones I took with my numeric apparel…it is easier and cheap to shoot with those….of course can,t say that they are all good, I use to think more then before clicking on the shutter button..

I don’t like hot and humid…probably why I was looking through my pic’s collection of a time when I used to go to work up North, very far North, up in the Arctic Islands, place like Mould Bay and Eureka

There was always some odd features on these stations, some funny references, or things that are a bit out of place like a strange looking mast, maybe it did have a purpose in teh first years, but not when I was there, at least it did provide for a contrejour shot, underexposed to add drama… or the buildings wearing indications for the International Mould Bay airport…gates 1 to 77…:)